Re: Re: group based array sort

[bageler]

in reply to Re: group based array sort
in thread group based array sort

that's good and fine if the data came in the sorted tree order, which it doesn't in my situation. :-) think like pulling from a database, where the order is unknown and i'm not allowed to do ORDER BY in my sql.

[Limbic~Region]

bageler,
While I really think using Sort::Tree is probably the best option, here is a purely iterative solution. It has the following requirements:
• IDs will always be numerical
• Root level nodes will always have a parent of 0
• Probably a few others
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  Cheers - L~R

[bageler]

thanks! I'll give them both a shot.